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The dolls are usually modeled after teen girls or adult women, though child, male, and even some non-human variants exist. Contemporary fashion dolls are typically made of vinyl or another plastic. Barbie was released by the American toy-company Mattel in 1959, and was followed by many similar vinyl fashion dolls intended as children's toys ...
Caroline, Princess of Wales by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1798. In a letter to a friend, the prince claimed that the couple only had sexual intercourse three times: twice the first night of the marriage, and once the second night. [19] He wrote, "it required no small [effort] to conquer my aversion and overcome the disgust of her person."
Daisy was released in the UK in 1973, with the tag line "Mary Quant makes Daisy the best dressed doll in the world". Her name was a reference to Mary Quant's logo , a daisy flower . The doll was manufactured in the 1970s in Hong Kong by Model Toys Ltd, in connection with Flair Toys Ltd. Flair Toys Ltd went out of business in 1980, but Daisy ...
This plastic princess has dominated the toy scene since her 1959 creation. It's estimated that more than a billion Barbie dolls have been sold worldwide, with Mattel claiming that one hundred are ...
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
Queen Mary's Dolls' house. Queen Mary's Dolls' House is a doll's house built in the early 1920s, completed in 1924, for the British queen Mary of Teck.It was designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, with contributions from many notable artists and craftsmen of the period, including a library of miniature books containing original stories written by authors including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and ...
Queen (disputed) England: 10 July 1553 19 July 1553 9 days [119] Ireland: Mary I: Queen England: 24 July 1553 17 November 1558 5 years, 116 days Ireland: Elizabeth I: Queen England: 17 November 1558 24 March 1603 44 years, 127 days Ireland: Mary II: Queen England: 13 February 1689 28 December 1694 5 years, 318 days Ireland: Scotland: 11 April 1689
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